New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Every family in the country should purchase Khadi products worth at least Rs.5,000 every year as it would help provide employment to millions, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, and appealed to people to make the campaigns of Khadi and swadeshi successful. Shah made the appeal during a visit to the Khadi India showroom in Delhi's Connaught Place on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, emphasising that following a message of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, millions of families in the country have decided that they will not use any foreign goods. "Every family in the country should decide to buy Khadi products worth at least Rs.5,000 every year. This would provide employment to millions of people," he said. Shah, who is also the Union cooperation minister, said that during the last 11 years of the Modi government, sales of Khadi and village industry products have increased fivefold from Rs.33,000 crore to over Rs.1.7 lakh crore. "Prime Minister Modi, through his Mann Ki Baat programme, has promoted the idea of Swadeshi, inspiring the people of the country to connect with economic development and the Make-in-India campaign. Inspired by this, millions of families across the country have decided not to use any foreign goods in their households," Shah said. On the Swadeshi campaign, he said: "Both campaigns-promoting the use of Khadi and embracing Swadeshi-launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi should empower us. We should make these campaigns a part of our nature and pass them on to our future generations," Shah added....